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Re: Avoiding and/or?

Subject: Re: Avoiding and/or?
From: Dan Emory <danemory -at- primenet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:05:57 -0800

At 01:24 PM 11/14/00 -0500, Hart, Geoff wrote:

The usual rule of thumb is to replace "A
and/or B" with "A, B, or both". However, that gets cumbersome sometimes, as
Microsoft notes. (Give them credit: they're not always wrong with their
style advice. <G>)
Perhaps we should all begin writing boolean equations to deal with these
situations.

I think and/or is a preferred fudging phrase in legal documents.

It allows the sentence to be interpreted as:

A and B
or
A or B
or
not A and B
or
A and not B

Wonderful for attorneys
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